Conference 2014

8th, 9th & 10th October 2014
Royal on the Park
Cnr Alice & Albert Street
Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION - CONFERENCE BROCHURE - CONFERNECE PROGRAM - KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
WOMEN WITH LIVED PRISON EXPERIENCE

WEDNESDAY 8th OCTOBER 2014
9.15AM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Debbie Kilroy, Sisters Inside
Kim Pate, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
NA
Prof Angela Davis, Activist & Writer
NA
11.30AM
INDIGENOUS KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Antoinette Braybrook, Aboriginal Domestic & Family Violence Legal Service
COMING SOON
Pricilla Collins, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
COMING SOON
Melissa Lucashenko, Novelist & Founding Member of Sisters Inside
COMING SOON
2.00PM
BEHIND THE LINES - Award Winning Writers on Poverty, Pain & Prison
Kris Olsson, Novelist & Sisters Inside
COMING SOON
Melissa Lucashenko, Novelist & Founding Member of Sisters Inside
COMING SOON
Prof Angela Davis, Activist & Writer
COMING SOON
THURSDAY 9TH OCOTBER 2014
9.00AM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Assoc Prof Gina Dent, University California Santa Cruz
COMING SOON
Dr Sharon McIvor, Activist & Academic
COMING SOON
Erica Meiners, St. Leonard's Adult High School
COMING SOON
 
2.00PM
Mental Health & Violence Workshop
Jenny Speed & Ann Marie Tilley, Sisters Inside
PEER Support Program
Narelle Poroch, Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
Delivering the Winnunga Holistic Prison Health Care Model
Adele Murdolo, Multicultural Centre for Women's Health
Migrant and refugee women's health and wellbeing in immigration detention
 
Creative Mediums
Carolyn Craig, Griffith University
The punishment machine and the human psyche - can art manifest a corporeal identity after incarceration

PowerPoint

Paper

Kaori Sakagami, Out of Frame
Documentary Film "TALK BACK OUT LOUD"
COMING SOON
 
Decarceration Models & Alternatives
Debbie Kilroy, Sisters Inside
Supreme Court Bail Program
Chris Knight, Soroptimist International
Gaining Momentum - Reducing Women's Imprisonment
Paul Simpson, Kirby Institute
Assessing community views of prison and prison alternatives using a deliberative research approach
COMING SOON
 
FRIDAY 12TH AUGUST 2011
9.30AM
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Deborah Coles, Inquest, UK
Dr Anne Summers, AO Author, journalist and thought-leader
COMING SOON
Cassandra Shaylor, Critical Resistance USA
 
11.30AM
Abolition, Research & Observation
Marisela Velazquez, James Cook University
Sentencers' attitudes toward women in the criminal justice system - Perceptions about Indigenous women
Amanda George, Phoebe Barton & Emma Russell, Flat Out
Decentring the Prison: Abolitionist Approaches to Working with Criminalised Women
COMING SOON
Shelby Ferreira, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College
Gendered Barriers to Abolitionist Pedagogy: Reflections of a Prison Educator in the United States
 
Women & Children
Karina Bell & Zofia Wasiak, Sisters Inside
Building on Women's Strengths
Jenny Speed, Sisters Inside
Programs to Educate and Empower Kids
 
Young People Workshop
Whit Church & Neta-Rie Mabo Sisters Inside
Reconnect Crucial Connection Program
COMING SOON
Caitlin Proctor & Denise Eagleton, Sisters Inside
Sexual Assault Counselling & Support Program
   

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